Mind the weather: A panel data analysis of time-invariant factors and traffic fatalities

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Yakovlev, Pavel A ^a   Inden, Margaret ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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